The meta is strong with this 28 year old song.
i never thought of this in that way before. it is meta squared
I first heard this joke on a very butch lesbian’s stand up special in comedy central like 15 years ago. I think about it every time I hear the song.
No 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife
Man waited his whole damn life to take that flight, and as the plane crashed down, he though, “Well isn’t this nice”
Those are both irony.
As others have pointed out - there are plenty of things in the song that actually are ironic. So what’s ironic is people keep complaining about the lack of irony in a song called “Ironic” when it’s actually got irony in it.
I forget who it’s from, but this attitude reminds me of the quote: “Most of the ingredients in this soup aren’t even turds, so what are people complaining about?”
